Pit Schultz

Media artist, lives and works in Berlin. Co-founder of - a moderated mailing list for net criticism, collaborative text filtering, and cultural politics of the nets (www.nettime.org) Pit Schultz is also the co-founder of the Bootlab abd Klubradio.de, both in Berlin.

Felix Stalder

Felix Stalder is a researcher, economist, and media theorist, working in Zürich and Vienna. He is co-founder and co-moderator of the influential nettime mailing list for net criticism.

• media theory

Tetsuo Kogawa

Tetsuo Kogawa's interests range over a variety of disciplines and critical approaches.

 Big Noise Films

Big Noise Films is a collective of media-makers around the world, dedicated to circulating beautiful, passionate, revolutionary images.

• tactical media,
• independent media,
• media criticism,
• cinema

Julian Stallabrass

Julian Stallabrass is a lecturer, writer, curator and photographer.

• art,
• theory

Josephine Bosma

Josephine Bosma lives and works in Amsterdam. From an art background, she is a journalist and author in the fields of art, new media and media theory, focusing on art, sound and performance on the internet, as well as cyberfeminism and media politics.

Krzysztof Wodiczko

Krzysztof Wodiczko is an artist currently living in Boston and teaching at MIT.

• art

Howard Slater

Howard Slater is a London-based writer and researcher. His texts have appeared in Datacide,as part of the collaborative TechNet project, and under pseudonym in Alien Underground, Shimmer and The Techno Connection. He is the editor of 'Break/Flow'.

• media theory,
• media criticism

Rita Raley

Rita Raley is Associate Professor of English, with courtesy appointments in Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and Global Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of digital media and humanist inquiry, with a particular emphasis on cultural critique, artistic practices, and language (codework, machine translation, electronic literature, and electronic English).

• tactical media,
• infopolitics,
• info-activism

Networked Disruption 

The current techno-economic paradigm of Web 2.0 has challenged notions of art and hacktivism within digital culture. The book "Networked Disruption" takes up this challenge and discusses a new perspective on political and social criticism. It simultaneously asks what are the conditions for hacker and artistic practices under Web 2.0 and how can social networking be seen to build on and incorporate artistic practices from the earlier decades of digital and network culture.

Through its theoretical discussion of contemporary art and hacktivism, the book maps out a new contradictory space for art and criticism: Networked disruption.

• network cultures,
• activism,
• infopolitics,
• info-activism,
• hacktivism